My Girl Katie

Both of her wins have come in the past eight months. The first arrived at Newton Abbot in July 2025, and she followed it up with another at Stratford-on-Avon in August. Two wins in the space of six weeks, after years of near-misses, is the kind of run that makes people sit up and take notice. She now heads into her comeback having been off the track for roughly seven months, so there will be questions about whether that sharpness has been preserved — but the timing of her return will have been carefully managed by trainer Grace Harris.

Harris runs her yard out of Shirenewton in Gwent, and it has been a productive season — 27 winners sent out, which is a strong return for a smaller operation. The fact that she has kept My Girl Katie ticking over and trusted her to build on that late-career form says something about how the horse is regarded at home. Jockey Conor Ring has been the constant throughout, riding her in 23 of her 27 races and picking up both wins. That kind of long-term partnership matters — Ring knows exactly how this horse wants to be ridden.

My Girl Katie typically competes at Class 5, which is the bread-and-butter level of British racing rather than the headline events. At that level she has won 2 of 17 races, a 12% win rate — around 1 in every 8 — which is notably better than her overall record and suggests she is well placed when she runs at the right grade. After seven months away, the key question is simply whether she comes back as the horse who won twice in quick succession last summer, or whether the break has interrupted what had become a promising momentum.